[wellylug] NZ Ubuntu Repository

[Rob Collins]

I've got very limited knowledge of the inner workings of (k)ubuntu but 
wasn't at all keen to upgrade from Edgy to Feisty after a fiasco I had 
trying to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy.  That was until upgrading to 
Feisty happened almost accidentally after I enabled a repository for 
something else.  Up popped a GUI upgrading tool out of nowhere and I 
have to be honest with you, upgrading was as easy as falling off a log, 
no knowledge of Linux required - and that's coming from a sceptic!"

If it's that easy these days, why not just keep up with the latest 
version of the OS if you want the latest of the programs running on it?

Rob

jeffhunt90 at gmail.com wrote:
> I thought I was a pretty conservative bloke, but you folks are making 
> me feel positively innovative. I gave up on Edgy because its dialup 
> was shonky and I gave up on Feisty because I couldn't get it into 
> anything - (I think that was hardware faults, but it wasn't worth the 
> effort).
> Under the impression that I was supposed to be keeping up to date I 
> have been getting new software whenever I felt the need and installing 
> it, usually off a binary.
> Apart from destroying hundreds of hours of family genealogy when I 
> upgraded Gramps ( its ok I recovered on another machine) I have never 
> had a problem. Yesterday I wasted hours finding a shell script to do 
> the deed of getting Firefox updated so I could view SVG graphics. It 
> now works.
> If I can do these things with greater than 95% success rate, surely 
> someone with access to source code and inside knowledge can compile 
> something like Firefox, check it doesn't transgress and put it into 
> the Ubuntu 6.06 repository.
>
> I do feel that the 'big two' Firefox and Open Office should be being 
> updated even if there has to be a new category called somehting like 
> 'stable we think' (a bit stable?) (not too unstable?)
> Cheers.
>
> On 5/22/07, *Jethro Carr* <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com 
> <mailto:jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:06 +1200, Pete Black wrote:
>     > Its better to simply understand this, than to be given a bunch of
>     > alternatives like 'maintain newer versions of packages by compiling
>     > yourself', which very few people really enjoy doing. Basically, if
>     > you like Ubuntu, but want new software, and aren't prepared to futz
>     > around with apt.conf entries, then upgrade to the newer releases
>     > regularly. This might potentially (though it seems to be less
>     likely
>     > with each release - update quality is improving noticeably) break
>     > your system, but if you're going to be using Ubuntu long term, its
>     > best to wrestle with the beast and get somewhat comfortable with
>     this
>     > process. LTS is not a good option unless you want to use the
>     packages
>     > delivered with the release long term.
>
>     I would state that many users actually want to use their computers
>     long
>     term! :-)
>
>     Even I don't upgrade every 6 months, because if I have all the
>     features
>     I need, why upgrade?
>
>     If you want the latest and greatest of everything, then sure, go and
>     upgrade. But Ubuntu LTS is an excellent choice for users wanting a
>     stable system that they don't need to upgrade for a few years.
>
>     --
>     Jethro Carr
>
>     www.jethrocarr.com <http://www.jethrocarr.com>
>     www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
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>
>
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